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"Boy, I only need my target alive not you."
"Good to know!" Alecto said then gestured with his hand. His Master's lightsaber sizzled on again, flipping towards the bounty hunter who ducked under it, firing his handguns, one towards Alecto, the other at the lightsaber. Alecto blocked the bolt coming towards him followed by the next three, watching out of the corner of his as the one bolt fired toward his Master's lightsaber impacted the hilt, shattering it.
Undaunted Alecto charged forward, seemingly intent on closing the distance so that Cad Bane couldn't continue to use his blasters as he had so far. But Cad Bane replied quickly, using one blaster to attack Alecto's legs, and the other to attack his upper body. Needing to defend his entire body from this assault made Alecto stop where he was, his lightsaber flashing quickly. "So it's a question of who gets tired first, my blasters, or your body kid. You should've stepped away when you had the chance."
Alecto elected not to reply, his lightsaber flashing this way and that again and again and again, battering the bolts aside, unable to return them directly to the source without opening himself up to the following bolts. He grunted as one of them got through on his shin, and another in the side. His Force Precognition just wasn't up to this level of fire yet. But he had other tricks to play.
Feeling his opponent was becoming overconfident, Alecto decided it was time to play them once more. When his stunners were dodged and letting his defense falter enough to launch them nearly cost him, Alecto had to turn fully on the defensive. However he decided to do so a bit dramatically. A Force Shield suddenly shimmered in place in front of him, and Alecto molded it around half of his body like a tower shield, absorbingthe blaster bolts.
Cad Bane gaped at the strange apparition, a shimmering golden shield of energy conjured by this callow youth, before pulling out a concussion grenade. He tossed it at the boy, but before it could reach Alecto had grabbed it via the Force, hurling it back at Cad Bane. He ducked underneath it, then his eyes widened and he turned, trying to grab the grenade before it could impact the outer wall of the tunnel directly behind. "NO!"
The bounty hunter couldn't catch the grenade in time, and the grenade exploded on impact with the metal of the tunnels side, which cratered at the explosion. Cad Bane was flung backwards, generally not harmed at first, but even so he had only a moment to scream before the pressure of the planet's atmosphere shattered the weak point in the tunnel. The wind from outside, swirled in and began to tear him apart.
Behind his former opponent Alecto blinked in exhaustion, dropping his lightsaber for a moment as he used both hands to help him direct his shield, enlarging it to cover his entire body and that side of the tunnel as he slowly backed away towards the waiting train car, where Silas had already retreated to, his legs not having been glued together like the rest of him, evidently Cad Bane hadn't wanted to carry him.
Reaching the open door of the train car Alecto fell backwards, and briefly debated trying to summon his lightsaber to him. But he was too exhausted, the strain of keeping up that Force Shield against the massive pressure of the wind on top of his physical battle with Cad Bane having taken its toll. Even as he watched his shield began to shimmer, and he weakly leaned up, pulling his legs in as he did so. Slamming his hand down onto the control of the doorway, he rolled away as it started to shut and his shield failed.
Thankfully as Alecto had known, the train car was rated to handle the same kind of pressure and heat and wind as the tunnel's outer shell in case of decompression. Not that Alecto actually noticed this, too busy slipping into unconsciousness. The last thought going through Alecto's mind as the darkness took him was to thank Harry and Mistress Lily for their lessons. He was still lying there on the floor of the train car when the car pulled into the preprogrammed station and the miners found him and Silas, with his upper body still immobilized.
"…And so Master, after the miners were able to take control of Luten's ship and found some evidence to back up our Force-fed suspicions, I took it upon myself to finish the peace talks." Alecto said later that day, sitting up in a medical bed, his shoulder, side and leg all in casts, visible through the projector apparently as one of the High Council's first question was about his health. An odd thing coming from Jedi, which made Alecto wonder how he looked. He would not have been surprised by the answer: that he looked like death warmed over.
"The miners will get their demands met on local control, better living conditions and the percentage of the profits Master Thun had set out in his outline, as well as safety measures, but they're still tied to HM." Alecto shrugged, wincing as the movement aggravated his injuries. "If they want to make a living here there is no way to get past the fact they still need the parent corporation."
Master Windu bobbed his head in an almost nod. "You went above and beyond what a padawan should have to face young Alecto, well done." He was still a little leery about how many of Clan Saa had already professed that they would be taking the Old Oath rather than the prescribed New Oath, as well as how emotional they all seemed occasionally, but there was no denying the efficacy or their techniques. Indeed, Mace had begun to learn a few of them just like many others. They weren't having much luck, it was a very slow process for the older Jedi, but Master Yoda had learned several of them, so it was possible.
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